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What is your favorite railroad book?

Jim Wrinn asked that question in the latest issue of Trains.

Is it books of nostalgia, or books about the future of railroading?

I'm curious. Will the younger generation regard diesel as we old farts think of steam? New technology will prevail.

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No matter the era, anything by Morning Sun
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Either Chesepeake & Ohio's Pere Marquette's by Thomas Dixon Jr. or The Last Of Steam by Joe Collias. Any Brian Soloman book is great as well.
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sd70accsxt700 wrote:No matter the era, anything by Morning Sun
Who dat?
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Norm wrote:
sd70accsxt700 wrote:No matter the era, anything by Morning Sun
Who dat?
Publishing company.
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THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WHO DAT WHO SAY WHO DAT ?
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PAT C. WROTE
THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PAT.C wrote:WHO DAT WHO SAY WHO DAT ?
Dat me say dat. :lol:
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Man...ONE favorite book??

Heartland by Greg McDonnell is certainly in the upper eschelon of my collection.

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"The Situation in Flushing" by Edmund G. Love. It's about the author growing up in Flushing Michigan and his love of trains. I read it almost once a year.
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"Clinchfield Country" by Steven King (not that Steven King, the other one...)
Covers the Clinchfield through dieselization until the Seaboard System merger in 1980.
I haven't lost my mind, it's on tape backup here somewhere...

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GAP wrote:"The Situation in Flushing" by Edmund G. Love. It's about the author growing up in Flushing Michigan and his love of trains. I read it almost once a year.
I have that book, original Hard cover copy, right here in my book case..What a great book!

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"Conrail Commodities" by Jeremy Taylor
An excellent, detailed look at Conrail's traffic patterns in the early 1990s.

"The Men Who Loved Trains" by Rush Loving, Jr.
Trains magazine had some excerpts from this recently.
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"ALCO's to Allentown" great old shots of ALCO's in and around Allentown, P.A. link to publisher http://www.alco628.com/wizzau.html
What smells like lube oil and diesel.... Oh wait it's just my "Locomotive Breath"
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Conrail Jon wrote:Chesepeake & Ohio's Pere Marquette's by Thomas Dixon Jr....
I have quite a few train books, but I think I'll go with Jon on this one. I was blown away when I came across this book last spring. I had no idea that the PM had this passenger train that went from GR to Detroit. Made me sad that I missed out on that time period. Maybe Marquette can score an old F unit and create a heritage unit and run a special excursion between GR and Manistee. :D
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A pair of books that complement each other quite nicely are Scott Trostel's "The Detroit Toledo & Ironton"and the Morning Sun DT&I in Color.
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"The Nickel Plate Story" by. John Rehor
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Can't name just 1, so how about a few?

"Regional Railroads of the Midwest" by Steve Glischinski...Voyager Press

"Chicago Great Western in the Merger Decade(1960's)" by Phillip R. Hastings..Carstens Publications

"Michigan-Ontario Ore Railroads" by Patrick C. Dorin... TLC Publishing

"Images of Rail, The Ann Arbor Railroad" by D.C. Jesse Burkhardt...Arcadia Publishing

"Rail America Vol. 1, Diesel Paint Schemes, Photos & Rosters for CN North America (CN, GTW, CV, DWP)" by Donald C. Lewis & Patrick C. Dorin.... LPD Publishing

"North American Railyards" by Michael Rhodes...MBI Publishing

Then there is the list of books I would love to have...but I will save that for another time(LONG!!!!!!!).....
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Some very interesting answers indeed.

A lot of them sound like they would make great reading.
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